TY - JOUR
T1 - Tools and Technologies for Patients and Caregivers Engagement: A Qualitative Analysis of Health Professionals’ Attitudes and Day-to-Day Practice
AU - Barello, Serena
AU - Graffigna, Guendalina
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - As patient engagement cannot be achieved without health professionals co-operation and agreement, attention to the clinicians’ views and attitudes about patient engagement is essential in order to deepen potential enablers and barriers for its implementation. This qualitative study aimed to identify health professionals’ attitudes towards patient engagement and the perceived hindrances and facilitators to the implementation of the patient engagement strategies in their routine practice with a particular focus of health information technologies for patient engagement. It identifies the dimensions underlying patient engagement realization, namely clinicians’ “Meanings and attitudes towards patient engagement”, “practical experience of patient engagement”, and “being a health professional in the era of patient engagement”, as well as highlights the fashion in which these dimensions operate will either activate or inhibit patient engagement innovation. Finally, the study highlighted the great potential of health technologies to support patient engagement if they are enablers of the patient-clinician relationship and not replace it.
AB - As patient engagement cannot be achieved without health professionals co-operation and agreement, attention to the clinicians’ views and attitudes about patient engagement is essential in order to deepen potential enablers and barriers for its implementation. This qualitative study aimed to identify health professionals’ attitudes towards patient engagement and the perceived hindrances and facilitators to the implementation of the patient engagement strategies in their routine practice with a particular focus of health information technologies for patient engagement. It identifies the dimensions underlying patient engagement realization, namely clinicians’ “Meanings and attitudes towards patient engagement”, “practical experience of patient engagement”, and “being a health professional in the era of patient engagement”, as well as highlights the fashion in which these dimensions operate will either activate or inhibit patient engagement innovation. Finally, the study highlighted the great potential of health technologies to support patient engagement if they are enablers of the patient-clinician relationship and not replace it.
KW - Health professionals
KW - Patient engagement
KW - Professional identity
KW - Technologies
KW - Health professionals
KW - Patient engagement
KW - Professional identity
KW - Technologies
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/129469
UR - http://www.springer.com/series/8197
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-01093-5_18
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-01093-5_18
M3 - Article
SN - 1867-8211
VL - 253
SP - 139
EP - 149
JO - LECTURE NOTES OF THE INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTER SCIENCES, SOCIAL INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING
JF - LECTURE NOTES OF THE INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTER SCIENCES, SOCIAL INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING
T2 - 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Paradigms for Mental Health, MindCare 2018
Y2 - 9 January 2018 through 10 January 2018
ER -